Historical Marker
Frank Spencer Sutton
Historical marker location:
107 Franklin Street, Clarksville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Franklin Street east of North 1st Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.